A guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, including Bay Area-connected releases, collector highlights, and where to find participating shops.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Disc-mas. In these final days of December, as Record Store Day Black Friday again takes over independent music shops, vinyl exclusives are the reason for the season ...

A partial list of some music-themed books that came out in 2025 about such acts as the Beatles and the Cars, and memoirs by ...

The resulting album, Squeeze, sounds less like The Velvet Underground and more like a rushed, third-rate pub-rock project. It was a commercial and critical failure that completely muddied the ...

Their brilliant debut album First Utterance (1970) is highly recommended. A chilling, hypnotic blend of psych-folk and ...

Bands inspire fierce devotion, but the same passion can spark chaos. From The Beatles’ public clashes to Fleetwood Mac’s ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 23: In 1893, the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Haensel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.

Fleetwood Mac's Live 1975 album jumps nearly 20,000% in sales thanks to Record Store Day 2025, as the project was finally ...

Written amid breakups, The Chain is Fleetwood Mac’s sole song credited to all five members and became their signature closing ...

Titled "Fleetwood Mac: Live 1975," the live album "captures the incredible electricity of the band's first tour with the legendary lineup of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joining Mick Fleetwood, ...

In most instances, John McVie had no problem coming up with bass parts for Fleetwood Mac songs. The iconic riff in "The Chain," for example, was all his doing. "I butted heads [with] Lindsey ...

Black Friday Record Store Day 2025 has plenty of great offerings. Here are our critic's picks of the best releases to look for.